Extending Ecocriticism: Crisis, Collaboration and Challenges in the Environmental Humanities

Peter Barry, William Welstead

ISBN 10: 1784994391 / ISBN 13: 9781784994396

Published by Manchester University Press 2017-10-04, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Extending Ecocriticism: Crisis, Collaboration and Challenges in the Environmental Humanities
• Publisher: Manchester University Press 2017-10-04
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784994391
• ISBN 13: 9781784994396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume of essays explores the scope for a further extension of ecocriticism across the environmental humanities. Contributors, who include both established academics and early career researchers in the humanities, were given free rein to interpret the brief. The collection is unusual in that it considers collaboration between individuals both in the same discipline and across creative disciplines. Subjects include familiar environments close to home and those such as Iceland and Antarctica, where narratives of climate, geology and ecology provide a stark backdrop to creative output. A further innovation is the inclusion of essays on public art, natural heritage interpretation and the visualisation and aesthetic impact of wind farms. The book will be of interest to writers, artists, students and researchers in the environmental humanities and those with a general interest in the cultural response to the environment.

About the Author

Peter Barry is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth